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Physical reality and mind with Chris Fields | Reason with Science | Quantum theory | Consciousness

Reason with Science

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Is Consciousness a Noun?

Wittgenstein: Can we attribute really a noun as in consciousness to a kinase, for example? I'm tempted to say, why not? And should we be treating this word as a noun anyway? Yeah. We switch back and forth between biology speak and chemistry speak very fluidly when we talk about what's going on inside a cell. But with the question of consciousness, and certainly he would say that it's the, the received view that consciousness stops someplace is radical.

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